Ryan Martin’s Indiana Ag Forecast for November 7, 2018

No major changes this morning. Dry weather will take control for the next 2 days over the state. Cooler air pushes in over the state, but we are staving off the bitter cold push still until this weekend. WE should see a good mix of clouds and sun today, and winds should subside over the gusty set up we saw yesterday. We start to dry down tonight and see dry weather for tomorrow and Thursday too.

Rain is back for overnight tomorrow night through Friday. Moisture totals remain mostly unimpressive and we are keeping our forecast at few hundredths to .4” over 70% of the state. However, temps go near to below freezing overnight Thursday night and do not recover Friday morning through much of the day. This may allow for some wet snow to mix in with our precipitation, even though it is light.

Dry and significantly colder air returns for the weekend. Temps will be well below normal, and there no change in our thoughts about the potential for Saturday to see daytime highs stay below freezing over the northern quarter to third of the state. Sunday can be sub-40 for highs over most of the state.

We stay dry Monday through Wednesday of next week. We likely see clouds from time to time, but no new precipitation. Thursday, we see Clouds build and then have a chance of scattered showers north of US 24 in the morning. The rain threat extends to statewide by mid to late afternoon and goes through the overnight. We can see from .05”-.25” with 70% coverage.

For the extended period, we are dry for next Friday and Saturday. But, then we move into another wet, active period for Sunday the 18th through Wednesday the 21st. We see at least 2 waves of moisture moving over the eastern corn belt in that time, perhaps more. Combined rain totals will be from .25”-.75” with the heaviest rain chances in the southern half of the state.